VOUCHER, accounts. An account book in which are entered the acquittances, or
warrants for the accountant's discharge. It also signifies any acquittance
or receipt, which is evidence of payment, or of the debtor's being
discharged. See 3 Halst. 299.

VOUCHER, common recoveries. The voucher in common recoveries, is the person
on whom the tenant to the praecipe calls to defend the title to the land,
because he is supposed to have warranted the title to him at the time of the
original purchase.
2. The person usually employed for this purpose is the cryer of the
court, who is therefore called the common voucher. Vide Cruise, Dig. tit.
36, c. 3, s. 1; 22 Vin. Ab. 26; Dane, Index, h.t.; and see Recovery.

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